Thanks to Neil Gaiman's blog for a link(December 13) to Jenny Davidson's best of 2005 books list.
I took a look and I'm glad I did, because that was where I saw Jenny's recommendation of Peter Temple and especially of Temple's works featuring Jack Irish. I got hold of those books and read them, and they live up to Jenny's recommendations and more.
These books are so well-written and fast-moving and filled with that terrific, packed, indirect, allusive, sideways glancing, to-the-point but never on-the-nose Australian speech. Your eyes could happily chew your way from cover to cover and beg for more at the end. Mine did.
And funny as hell. Did I mention funny as hell? Aside from the suspense, maneuvering, and action, that is.
The first two Jack Irish books are available; I hope a third one and many more come out soon. The two are: Bad Debts and Black Tide.
Enjoy them!
12:59:15 PM 
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